Dear all,
MEDICINE WITH LACK OF EVIDENCE BASE
I and collaborators have found that the antidepressant drug citalopram is
ineffective when one takes the recommended dose of 20 mg per day.
Moreover, at least in Denmark this dose was marketed even before it had
been tested in trials.
Our paper is perhaps located in an awkward place:
http://www.webmedcentral.com/article_view/1207
- so far read by very few people after a month with free access on the
Internet.
A reviewer asks the authors what to do about it? We only intended to point
to some facts and believe that license holders and regulatory agencies
ought to draw their conclusions, alternatively contradict us.
Ivar Aursnes
Department of Pharmacology
University of Oslo
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